Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-23

sbsaa- The ersat scandal ~ 1914
deprived Mr.. BeeebsF 81 progress. He
was like TIE man 10 Non ChamIsso's
story, ubo, supposing his shad0g 70 Be
Of 10 Consequence. sold Il 90 & ssrsefn
black nan. The momaut hls shadow
vas gone its los plagued him every
wbafe. He found himself sitting alone
10 BIZ room and his chair throwing .
shadow aeross The faor, while there vas
no ehsdov q himssif. Az be WALKED
With the lady o. his love tnrOagh the
woods b. moonlixhs. and the moon pre-
PEELED her shadov befOre them. and she
ssU that be had none, she soRieksd. So
be wens h parsufl Of the devil Who had
Rot bis shadow and fought bin foe Il
t1ll be gut his foot upon Il and hsld 9
fast.
Thirteen years xss BECKER Fscovsr.
ing bis infoenes. and tken he died.
These tbtFfsen wears constitnts more
than half the life Of some millions Of
people who are nov regarding the bro
ken hero; "a that interval they have
lost the ger raj recollection Of his work
aud seFvieea. TIE great scandal, there
fnre, dissipstea the career Of Mr..
Beecher and stopped il
AT THE AGE or sExTr.
II we desire % ratarn along the track Of
bis life aud pick out its famous resting
places, Ne sboald fad that be sassseTen
years old when the Missouri CoDpr0-
mise was passed. Limiting slavery TO an
east and vest lins; that be vas forty
one years Of age when this Misssurt
Compromise vas repealed. letting STAT
cry out Of its cage to wander over ths
Northwest; thst be vas forty eight ysars
old when Abraham Lincoln. upon that
issue Of slavery, became President, and
that be Vas 6fty three years old when
she var ended
With this set Mr.. BeecheF a. . 20
litioal eRitator closed bis life. We next
hear Of him a. . politician pure and
simple, mingitnR 10 the personal con-
diets bstveen different Kspsblican can
didates- The success Of the
Union IN the war br01ght III
certain Generalization into all forms
of our society, ~ We can see
by the scandal around General Grant.
by the csrtOus behavior Of Mrs. LIN
coin and BY Mr.. Beeohsr's public de-
Tense sn RFievOus charge. vita in
Huenee and power. Mr.. Beecher was
solicited to get Offices for people and
keep those Ia ofhos whom be favored.
While Henry Ward BeecheF vas Ia
Litchheld, at the age Of seven, Aaron
Burr came up 10 the town, and the
beesheF family watched hia closely,
and many q year afteEwaFd Mrs. Beech
eF stowe wrought Barr into the tale Of
the Minister'S Wooing." II seems
strange that q fsV years later there
should break out Ia tbs BsecheF family
the most terrible scandal Of our century.
THE nKEcHER FAMILY.
Mr.. BeeoheF took an early interest In
flowers. He vas 9 precocious lover, and
married somevhat above bis Years.
Then he went 10 the West and settled
aown In smoky Oineinnati 10 study the
ology uudeF bis father. In that semina
~, where they we're teaching on this
earth the occult things Of God and
Heaven, love still threw its eyes about.
and Harriet BseoheE, at the age Of
twenty -four, married the learned theo-
logan, Calvin Stowe.
There was young George Beeohsr
coming forward Tor the pulpit, and be
also dEiftsd 20 Ohio, and IL said 10 have
shot himself with his Run while sporting.
There vas Edward Bseoksr, who was
nine years older than Henry, preaching
In the same city Of BostOn, beside his
father, bat In q din srent ehuroh. There
was Catherine Beseher. the oldest child
Of all, born 10 the year 1900, whose life
was
cLoUDED BT Tue ONE EVENT OF LOVE.
EnRaQed 10 be married to q church
professor, be was ship-vrecksd, asd
she went through life Borrowing more
than those wbs have lost their religious
convictions. Robustness, warmth, in
crease lay In this Beecher tribe, and
became the source Of their human love
and fondness for celestial subjects. He
formed his political character in thu
Western States, rs did NEST Of the
preachers. He was out there from 1884
- lS41, a period Of thirteen years. lie
vent 10 the West at the age of twenty
one, aud did not leave IL until be was
thirty -four. For eight years Of that
time be had the Presbyterian Church ut
indianapolis. He started il when a mere
lad, with ouiy fifteen members.
BeecheE's Church gravitatsd toward
what was called the new school Of the
When the Mexican War began 10 1876,
Mr.. Beocher began TO talk against sla-
very In indianapolis. Some II his
people left the church. Young Bsecher
made his church there known so well
that the rising town Of Brooklyn sent
for him. 10 had then, Ia ls47, about 70
600 ishabitants, and now has fully
COO, 600. These found him established
a Al L. A.
From that day TO this be has dwarfed
every other man IN Brooklyn by she
perpetual exercise Of bis Industry and
speech.
THEODORE Triton.
Tilton undoubtedly had less physical
bottom than Beecher; a. be grew older
be grew leaneF and whittier. As Bsecher
grew older be grew warmer and reddsF.
The one NAN became a eloud upon his
fAmily; the other was sunshine for all
Brooklyn. The one man, blessed with
health aud abundance, dies In the bosom
81 his family; the other IL a wandeFer,
and knows not his wife.
II Beeoher was q great orator, he was
3 still greater butler and steward for
philanthrosio things. He had audseity
TO 20 and ask for tenfold a. much mon
ey ~ Rn humber man would ask fer.
Hts own BODY and nature aud lasts re-
quitins continual s.snanee, he left
his church and went occurring when bis
salary vas not enough. There are some
who think that be would have lived
lonaeF IL be had tasted more. had bad
Dis periods Of psnanee, etc, bat all those
old rules are n0W exploded. Children
sre not sent to bed hungry any more
laat thaV fntaht ss,ae kha piuhtFsaaFa Man